The nurse who was physically attacked and brutally assaulted at the Ridge Hospital has shared her harrowing experience, detailing the events that led to the violent attack.
She narrated that popular activist Ralph Saint Williams, who is a member of the Democracy Hub Pressures Group, allegedly started the assault on her.
According to the distraught nurse, Ralp did not just assault her, but he also issued a threat against her in the process of the unprovoked attack she and her other colleagues suffered.
Recounting her ordeal, she alleged that Ralph, after angrily hitting her hand with his fist many times, issued a threat: “He was telling us he would follow us to our homes and beat us.”
She added that after Ralph had allegedly assaulted her physically and threatened to launch further attacks. Others who may have come with him also pounced on her and physically assaulted her.
The distraught nurse narrated that the severe attack she suffered at the hands of Ralph and his followers had caused her injuries, including a dislocated shoulder, headaches and body pains.
Giving a background to what led to the attack at the triage area of Ridge Hospital, she said, when Ralph and the others visited the facility, they [the staff] on duty were busily working, but they [Ralph and others] immediately wanted the staff to leave everybody and attend to them.”We explained to him, but then he was like he wouldn’t sit down, and then my in-charge told him to get a hospital card, but he asked why he should get the hospital card because his name must be in the system.” She narrated.
She said the frustrations escalated when her in-charge told Ralph that what he demanded was not done like that in Ghana, which infuriated him.
She said this is what started the attack, which has received nationwide condemnation with calls for the perpetrators to be arrested and quickly prosecuted.
The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has supported the calls for the arrest of the individuals who assaulted the nurses at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital.
